HP Redefines Storage Simplicity with Single Architecture for Enterprises of All Sizes

Most significant set of new storage platforms in over a decade

FRANKFURT, Germany -- HP today announced industry-first innovations for its Converged Storage portfolio that break through complexities and inefficiencies with a single architecture for all sizes of client deployments.

Many organizations waste as much as 70 percent of their budgets on capacity that is not actually storing data(1) while administrators struggle to manage dozens of disparate storage architectures. This creates a rigid sprawling infrastructure that often forces organizations to choose between features and affordability.

In 2011, HP announced Converged Storage to address legacy storage limitations exposed by the growth of human information, infrastructure convergence and the emergence of IT-as-a-Service data centers. The HP Converged Storage system vision is polymorphic simplicity. This is a new storage concept that enables a single-system architecture to exist in several forms, shapes and sizes from low to high, but retains common data services for block, object and file applications. This vision also calls for optimization for both hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state disks (SSD). Today, HP is expanding that portfolio to include:

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage is the industry's only midrange quad-controller platform offering Tier 1 storage availability and quality-of-service features at an easy entry price point for organizations.(2) Supporting both block and file data services, the system is available with HDD and SSD or as an all-SSD configuration capable of performing more than 320,000 input/output operations per second—2.4 times that of a similarly priced competitive array.(3)

HP StoreAll Storage, a highly scalable platform for object and file data access, provides a simplified environment for big data retention and cloud storage that reduces the need for additional administrators or hardware. HP StoreAll Express Query was created by HP Labs, the company's central research arm, and is a metadata database that allows clients to conduct search queries 100,000 times faster than previous file system search methods,(4) facilitating informed business decisions based on the most current data. Integration with HP Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) offloads processing tasks to HP StoreAll so that analytics can be rapidly performed with more current data and using less compute hardware. Additional integration with HP StoreAll and HP Autonomy Consolidated Archive, as well as certification of other independent software vendor applications, provides safe, long-term retention of digital assets.

HP StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup, with support for HP StoreOnce Catalyst software, provides efficient data movement and high-performance deduplication to reduce data protection costs in remote sites and data centers. The new models perform backup operations up to three times faster at a 35 percent lower cost than the closest competitive system.(5)

"Legacy storage vendors are simply not equipped to help organizations respond to new workloads, and bolting on new features to old architectures has created a nightmare," said David Scott, senior vice president and general manager, Storage Division, HP. "HP's unique set of Converged Storage innovations helps clients simplify infrastructure and reduce costs with a common architecture across storage segments and categories."

HP Converged Storage innovations help clients simplify storage infrastructure and respond to unpredictable demands while increasing the value organizations generate from their investments in three areas:

Return on information—by enabling better and quicker decisions with technologies such as embedded search and analytics to extract value from all types of information.

Return on infrastructure—by improving asset utilization through a polymorphic design and efficiency technologies to cut capacity needs in half.

Return on individuals—by providing common data services and centralized management across storage systems to reduce administration time and complexity.

"To keep pace with an unprecedented rate of innovation at Nuance, we recognized an immediate need to enhance the storage infrastructure across our company," said Frederic Van Haren, senior director, Research and Development Labs, Nuance Communications. "With HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, our infrastructure can instantly adapt to changing workloads and allow our staff to focus on the innovative voice and language solutions we bring to market."

HP also announced new services that help clients optimize their investment and create the right environment for their businesses. They include:

(1) Based on research data from Evaluator Group, indicating that on average companies are only using 30 percent of their physical disk capacity for applications.

(2) HP internal competitive pricing and feature analysis of competitors with tracked market share using the following Tier 1 definition: Tier 1 storage has more than two independent controllers, two paths to back-end disk, graceful handling of controller failures without impacting service levels, sub-LUN tiering across HDDs and SSDs, and synchronized three-way replication.

(5) Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors.

(6) Estimated U.S. list prices. Actual prices may vary.

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